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Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll be breaking them out separately. Here's a look at fall movies.

The Longest Week Jason ­Bateman stars as a trust-fund brat disinherited by his parents who manages to make Olivia Wilde fall for him anyway.

9/12Dolphin Tale 2 The follow-up to the 2011 family hit about a dolphin with a prosthetic tail.

No Good Deed Idris Elba is a handsome-but-evil home-invader dropping in on Taraji P. Henson.

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? The trilogy concludes, with cameo appearances from Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, and Grover Norquist.

The Drop The late James Gandolfini stars in a Brooklyn-based crime drama adapted from the Dennis Lehane book.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them It’s three movies in one. Directed by Ned Benson, this is the story of ­Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy’s busted marriage, told from three different perspectives: his, hers, and theirs.

The Skeleton Twins SNL grads Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are estranged twins who reunite and wonder how they got so screwed up.

9/19 The Maze Runner Adapted from the YA sci-fi book, starring Dylan O’Brien as a young man trapped in a post­apocalyptic maze.

A Walk Among the TombstonesLiam Neeson is a P.I. hired by a drug lord to smoke out his wife’s killer (and kill dozens of ­others, ­presumably).

Hector and the Search for Happiness Simon Pegg is a bored psychiatrist who makes an “eat pray love” journey around the world.

A Life in Dirty Movies A year in the life of the “Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street” — sexploitation director Joe Sarno — and his wife as they make a female-friendly soft-core porno.

This Is Where I Leave You Jason Bateman, Corey Stoll, Tina Fey, and Adam Driver are siblings in the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper’s book about a ­family sitting shiva for their dead dad. Jane Fonda plays the mom.

Tracks Mia Wasikowska makes a 2,000-mile trek across the Australian desert with help from Adam Driver.

Pump Johnny O’Hara’s documentary on America’s oil ­addiction.

9/26The Equalizer Denzel Washington is a former black-ops commando doling out street justice to violent criminals.

Believe Me Alex Russell is a down-on-his-luck college student who becomes an ­evangelist to raise funds for his law-school tuition.

The Boxtrolls3-D stop-motion/CGI hybrid about a Victorian orphan raised by sub­terranean trash collectors, with voices by Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, and Ben Kingsley.

Good PeopleBroke London couple James Franco and Kate Hudson are saved by a stroke of luck: Their neighbor gets murdered and leaves behind $400,000.

Jimi: All Is by My SideAndré 3000 plays the young, ­emergent Hendrix. Written and directed by Oscar winner John Ridley (writer of 12 Years a Slave).

The Two Faces of JanuaryViggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst are a wealthy couple whose vacation to 1960s Greece gets totally ruined by multiple murders.

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10/3Annabelle The deranged doll from last year’s The Conjuring gets her own movie.

Drive Hard A thief (John Cusack) recruits an ex-racer (Thomas Jane) to be his getaway driver.

Gone Girl The much-­awaited David Fincher version of the Gillian Flynn book about a woman (Rosamund Pike) who goes missing on the eve of her wedding anniversary. Ben Affleck plays her maybe-culpable husband.

The Good LieReese Witherspoon advocates for a trio of Sudanese lost boys and a sister.

Left BehindIt’s The Leftovers with funnier ­acting: The ­Rapture happens and God snubs Nicolas Cage.

The LiberatorÉdgar Ramirez (Carlos) stars in a Simón Bolívar biopic.

Men, Women & ChildrenJason Reitman directs Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Jennifer Garner in a comedy about the ways in which the internet has messed them up.

10/10Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Disney takes on the beloved tale of an 11-year-old’s day from hell, with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner.

Whiplash Miles Teller is a jazz drummer put through his paces by a drill-sergeant instructor (J. K. Simmons) at an elite music school.

10/17Fury Shia LaBeouf comes out of retirement to co-star with Brad Pitt as American soldiers in WWII.

Listen Up Philip Jason Schwartzman makes a happy return to Bored to Death territory as a narcissistic writer on the brink, with Elisabeth Moss as his photographer girlfriend.

The Book of Life A 3-D computer-animated rom-com produced by Guillermo del Toro and starring the voices of Diego Luna and Channing Tatum, who compete for the affections of the voice of Zoe Saldana.

The Best of MeThe Nicholas Sparks adaptations just keep coming: This ninth attempt is a southern love story starring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden as high-school sweethearts reunited in their late 30s.

Birdman Michael Keaton stars in Alejandro González ­Iñárritu’s unauthorized biopic of Michael Keaton, about an actor famous for playing a superhero who tries to mount a Broadway play.

Dear White PeopleTyler James ­Williams and Tessa Thompson star in this satire about identity politics on an Ivy League campus that earned director Justin Simien Sundance’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.

10/24John Wick Two stuntmen — Chad Stahelski (stunt coordinator for The Hunger Games) and David Leitch (who has doubled for Brad Pitt) — make their directorial debut, with Keanu Reeves as a former hitman forced to kill again.

The Theory of Everything James Marsh’s (Man on a Wire) Stephen Hawking biopic, with Eddie Redmayne as the theoretical physicist and Felicity Jones as his wife.

RosewaterJon Stewart’s directorial debut, the fact-based story of a BBC journalist (Gael García ­Bernal) arrested and tortured for 118 days in Iran.

11/12A Most Violent Year Director J. C. Chandor (Margin Call, All Is Lost) goes back to the gritty New York of 1981, with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.

11/14Beyond the Lights In Love and Basketball director Gina Prince-Blythewood’s first movie since 2008’s The Secret Life of Bees, a young Grammy-winning musician falls for a police officer.

Dumb and Dumber ToTwenty years later, the simple odd couple (Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey) hit the highway in search of a long-lost daughter (and a kidney).

Foxcatcher The true story of Olympic-wrestling brothers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) and their dark and twisted sponsor (Steve Carell).

11/21The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch dives into the award zone as gay British code-cracking computer-­science pioneer Alan Turing, with Keira Knightley as his female assistant.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is back, and Julianne Moore joins the franchise as President Coin; the late Philip Seymour Hoffman revives his role as Plutarch Heavensbee.

11/26Horrible Bosses 2 The original cast return and this time launch their own business: Kidnapping and mayhem ensues.